Page 129 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

the light, would distance them from the capillaries that
nourish them and in great measure, would rob them of oxy-
gen and nutrients they need. Extending the capillaries into the

retina layer would not solve the problem, because this would pro-
duce many blind spots and reduce the eye's ability to see.
Denton comments:
The more deeply the design of the vertebrate retina is considered,
the more it appears that virtually every feature is necessary and that
in redesigning from first principles an eye capable of the highest
possible resolution and of the highest possible sensitivity (capable
of detecting an individual photon of light) we would end up recre-
ating the vertebrate eye—complete with an inverted retina. . . 73
In short, the arguments of Dawkins and other evolutionists
that "the vertebrate retina is faulty" derive from ignorance. Their
conclusions have been vitiated by more informed and knowledge-
able investigations of the minutiae of living creatures. Actually, in

the history of Darwinism there have been many other arguments
arising from ignorance. One is the myth of the "vestigial" organs.

The Myth of Vestigial Organs

You may have read that the human appendix and coccyx, or
tail bone, are vestigial organs that once had important functions in

our supposed evolutionary ancestors, but lost those functions over
the course of time.
Lots of people have, because ever since Darwin, the
myth of the vestigial organs has been the evolutionists'
favorite propaganda material.

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